I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year ...less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"Heaven nor hell shall impede my designs," said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of hi...s grandfather ... uttered a deep sigh and heaved its breast. ... Manfred ... saw it quit its panel, and descend on the floor with a grave and melancholy air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which [Clarence] Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from... the table, at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, "Who has put pubic hair on my coke?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »